The protests have carried on each Friday since March 30 and are designed to draw attention to the forced eviction of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes in 1948 and their right to return.

“We are suffering, there is no electricity, no water … people are going hungry. It’s painful, we will keep standing, we will come here to show the whole world we want our rights.” — a female protester to Al Jazeera

The United Nations has said that the area known as The Gaza Strip will be “literally uninhabitable” by 2020 — in just two years.

“That’s two million people, half of them children, being caged in a prison, carefully controlled, savage restrictions on food, on anything that comes to them, to the extent that the fishermen are kept close to shore so they can’t fish, the sewage plants have been destroyed, the power plants have been attacked.” — Noam Chomsky on DemocracyNow!

The U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has called for an investigation into the conduct of Israeli soldiers at the border with Gaza.